Thread by @solomonmissouri

So I get asked about this a lot... And that's good...

https://twitter.com/brandymford/status/1443291660276977670

Our faith systems have taught us that our bodies are an anathema to the divine

And that marriage is the only way to resolve this "war" enmity between my body and my..."spirit"

As if we are a hypostatic entity having two divergent experiences

You are not at war with your bodies

But more importantly the divine is not at war with your body, your pleasure, or your desire

But instead of teaching people to love themselves fully and care for themselves fully... We teach (because education is what we say and what we don't say) people to look for weird work arounds

Instead of helping young folks come to an understanding on their needs faith communities propagate shame and call it holiness

Please understand... You can't care for something well that you've been taught to hate

Anxieties created in adolescence don't disappear in adulthood

Discomfort ignorance and trepidations that we should naturally mature out of and cycle out of as we grow older... We carry with us

It becomes our baggage

So now you fifty and you have all these feelings and the only way you cope with your shame is harassing Lil Nas X on the internet. Cause he's comfortable in who he is.... But you not comfortable in who you are

And nobody goes back and gives redress to faulty conceptions of sex and sexuality... Cause you tried to pray it away.

You thought you needed to be delivered but you really needed to be loved.

And you needed care... And sometimes that care is physical intimacy

So emerging from these difficult conversations that we never give redress to is the possibility that caring for yourself well includes your sensual self.

That a Divine God is not looking for you to neglect yourself in order to love God well

That your soul is not in competition with your sensuality

That God is not intimated by your orgasm or your consensual sexual decisions

And that you prosper as your whole self prospers... Because a benevolent God leaves nothing behind

The divine leaves nothing behind. Be well. 🤌🏿